MommyA

I'm hoping someone on the board can help me find a solution to my dilemma. I laid this quilt (temporarily) on my cedar chest. The a few days later I laid a bunch of silk flowers on top, again temporarily until I had time to put them away. Meanwhile the window gets opened and it rained a little. The quilt was fine except under the silk flowers. As you can see the red faded If I wash the quilt with a color catcher, will any of the color come out or is my only option to remove the block and replace it. I do have a spare red block made that I had planned to turn into a pillow. The only problem is I have no more of the fabric used for the sashing. The backing fabric is slightly darker and a little different, but I can use that. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The quilt is all hand quilted.

Onebyone

I would wet the silk flower and lay it on cotton fabric. Then wash the fabric and see what happens.

tellabella

Try some different products...like sew clean....I would take some fabric scraps that you used in the quilt and experiments....

calla

Well, what to loose trying the color catcher? You would till have the other options...........but with fingers crossed maybe they won't be needed...........nice quilt by the way...........calla

bearisgray

Nice quilt and nice quilting.

Is the red stain from the silk flowers or from the fabric having gotten wet?

You could try putting dish detergent on the stain, and then flooding water through the area from the back. Let water run through that spot from back to front.

Are you able to replicate the stain on some scrap fabric and experiment on that?

Cass62

I had a similar thing happen (not with a quilt, though) and pre-treated with Clorox2, then washed. All traces of the stain were gone. I'm wondering, is the color from the silk flower, or did your red fabric bleed? If your fabric bled, you will want to use Synthropol.

Sewnoma

This is probably what I would do, if you still have those flowers. That way you can really test. Test on some dark fabric too, so you can make sure whatever method you use won't fade the dark green.

I also like the idea of soaping it up and then running water through from the back.

Whatever you do, just don't dry it until you're sure you're done removing the stains!

Looks like a lovely quilt, sorry this happened to it! But if worst comes to worst and you can't get the stain out completely, is it really a ruined quilt? Or is it just a quilt with a little more "story" to it?

SouthPStitches

What a lovely quilt. Hope you are successful removing the color.

Tartan

Check to make sure it was the flowers that bled or the red fabric in the quilt. If it is the red fabric in the quilt than replacing the block will not do much good as the first time the quilt is washed the other blocks will bleed. If it is the fabric, I would pretreat the bleed and then wash the whole quilt with colour catchers and check for more bleeds before drying.

nativetexan

synthrapol and if that doesn't work, Oxi clean. good luck.